Essence and Alchemy
Book description
As long as there has been passion, there has been perfume. Wealthy Romans used to scent their doves while in Shakespeare's time, a woman in love would place a peeled apple into her armpit to saturate it with her scent and then present it to her lover. "Essence and Alchemy"…
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Aftel is the Alice Waters of natural perfume and here she shares the secrets of her craft while revealing their rich history.
She brings out the magic and alchemy in humankind’s long-standing efforts to capture the aromatic essences of plants, evoking a hidden world of natural fragrances and their ability to seduce, heal, intoxicate, and transport one to another state.
From Theresa's list on perfume and scent.
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